After a string of disappointments, Madonna is back and firing on all cylinders on this direct sequel to her 2005 hit/

Madonna has always been both an artist and the creative director of her career. Yet her greatest records have been built on genuine collaboration – whether with Patrick Leonard, William Orbit, Mirwais or, in this case, Stuart Price. With Price, she has recaptured a kind of magic that has eluded her for the best part of two decades, returning to the scene of one of her greatest triumphs in order to summon another one.

The veteran pop diva has pressed rewind to move forward on her new record – and beneath the bangers fizz a host of emotionally charged memories.

Reteaming with producer Stuart Price for a sequel to her 2005 nu-disco LP, the pop star capitalizes on the velvet cordiality of her vocals with a sparkling new brand of arrangements.

On ‘CONFEFSSIONS II,’ a successor to her hit 2005 album ‘Confessions on a Dance Floor,’ the pop superstar gives new energy to her origin story and shines light on the troubles she’s danced away.

The icon’s new album is a pulsing reflection on loss and how dance floors have helped her endure.

Het komt wel vaker voor dat een artiest met een legendarisch resumé waarvan we allang hebben geaccepteerd dat de hoogtijdagen erop zitten, vanuit het niets een klassieke plaat uitbrengt. Natuurlijk is zo’n late career classic wel een ander soort album dan de platen waarmee men groot is geworden. De artiest moet zich immers aanpassen aan de beperkingen […]

Met de nostalgische dansvloervuller ‘CONFESSIONS II’ heeft Madonna haar krachtigste album in twee decennia gemaakt.

Al jaren struikelt de buitenwacht over haar rimpels en relevantie. Daarmee zou je zowaar glad vergeten dat Madonna ooit eigenhandig het aangezicht van de popmuziek heeft veranderd. En morgen probeert ze de dansvloer opnieuw te claimen met CONFESSIONS II. Zouden we het onderhand een traditie mogen noemen? Een soort collectief geheugenverlies dat optreedt telkens wanneer Madonna […]

After a long and anxious seven-year wait, Madonna finally plugs back into her clubland roots with a record of shamanic force.

More than 40 years into her career, this pop legend has reversed a long, slow slide in quality with an album that can sit among her very best.

Het is al zeker twintig jaar vaste prik: bij elk nieuw album dat Madonna uitbrengt, barst de discussie los of ze niet zou moeten stoppen ‘op haar leeftijd’. Ook traditie: dat die leeftijd haar fans geen klap interesseert.

The ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ sequel is the “Godfather II of follow-up records”.

Twenty years after ‘Confessions on a Dance’ Floor made history, Madonna takes us back to the place she loves most.

HUMO’s muziekrecensent Katia Vlerick luisterde naar ‘CONFESSIONS II’ en hoorde een kwetsbare Madonna: ‘De dood was altijd al aanwezig. Maar nooit waarde ze zo op haar platen rond als op ‘CONFESSIONS II’.’

‘CONFESSIONS II’ boldly reasserts Madonna’s belief that the dance floor is where you go to forget yourself and discover who you really are.

We weren’t sure if Madonna could surprise us anymore. Until she did.

‘Confessions II’ is an epic aural odyssey that celebrates dance music’s history — and Madonna’s own iconic career.

Madonna’s back in peak form with a fresh and honest dance record that’s not only her best in 20 years, but a genuinely vital addition to her canon.

On the cover of her latest album, ‘CONFESSIONS II’, Madonna’s face is obscured by a purple veil. “Sometimes I like to just hide in the shadows,” she says as the record opens. “Create a new persona, a different identity. I can be whoever I want to be.”

Reunited with Stuart Price two decades on, Madonna runs the nonstop mix through grief, exes, and pre-fame New York. Her best album since the original.

On her most vital album in over two decades, pop music’s grande dame proves she still knows how to make us move.

“Sometimes I like to just hide in the shadows,” mutters Madonna at the start of ‘I Feel So Free,’ the opening track on her 15th album ‘CONFESSIONS II.’ “Create a new persona. A different identity. I can be whoever I want to be.” As hard as it may be to picture Madonna hiding in the shadows of anything, that’s the thrill of any new album from her: guessing which version we’ll be getting. Will it be a cowgirl kicking up dust this time? A pop eccentric? A spiritually reborn idealist with a penchant for chanting and sitars?

A celebration of the dance floor that incorporates tributes to her earliest days on New York’s club scene, the queen of pop’s new music is engineered to make you move, or indeed, sweat.

After years spent chasing trends like trap and Latin pop, Madonna settles back​ nicely into​ old-school dance music to tell vivid vignettes of life in 80s New York

On ‘CONFESSIONS II’, pop’s queen of queens shows how dramatic and ecstatic a dance floor can be.